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...Forsaken, Mont. Dinner-party invitations trail off as conversation seems to center on the pleasures of fishing nymphs in deep riffles or the relative merits of bamboo and graphite fly rods. Children growl at the proposal that the backyard pool be returned to nature and converted to a trout pond...
START with a love triangle, its vertices a married couple and a single, widowed woman. Add that the three are artists living, year-round, next to a pond on the Cape. Toss in a schism that threatens to destroy forever the 10-year bond that had kept them knit together...
...mill rather than unique. The married couple is Willie--a sculptor happy in his bigamous lifestyle, who refuses to wear anything fancier than jeans and a fishing sweater--and Susan, a fabric designer who lusts after the fashionable New York lifestyle of Tyrone, their wealthy neighbor across the pond...
...LIFE OF GRAHAM GREENE, VOL. 1: 1904-1939 by Norman Sherry (Viking; $29.95). Greene may be the most elusive big fish still swimming in the shrinking pond of English letters, but this fascinating, obsessively detailed biography hooks him solidly. Hardly a question about the author goes unanswered, and Greene's best years, those of The Power and the Glory and The End of the Affair, are yet to come...
...best is yet to come, and Sherry, who has had Greene's sort-of approval and cooperation, should be in the best position to get it. Of all the big fish still swimming in the shrinking pond of English letters, Greene is one of the most elusive. As Sherry told the British press this spring, "He will not give you anything. If you don't ask, you won't get, and if you do ask, you might well...